To:  CWEMF Members & Interested Parties
Re:   2008 Annual Meeting Notice and Registration

The California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum (CWEMF) will hold its 14th Annual Meeting from Tuesday, February 26 through Thursday, February 28, 2008 at the Asilomar Conference Center near Monterey, California.  The theme of this year's Annual Meeting is: "Modeling for Decision Support under Changing Conditions." As in previous years, the CWEMF's Annual Meeting will overlap with the Interagency Ecological Program’s Annual Workshop, which runs from Wednesday, February 27 through Friday, February 29, 2008 at Asilomar.  On Wednesday, February 27, 2007, the CWEMF and IEP will conduct joint sessions. The CWEMF program includes:

• Approximately 20 breakout sessions on a wide variety of topics including:

• 2007 Update on Major Models Used in California Water Resources Planning and Analysis
• Water Community Program Activities
• Pop-Up Talks: Five Minute Overviews of Current Modeling Work in California
• Post-PPIC Technical Insights for Long-Term Management of the Delta
• Modeling for the California Water Plan
• Remote Sensing for Land and Water Use
• Water Supply and Flood Management Adaptation to Climate Change
• Delta Regional Ecosystem Restoration Implementation Plan (DRERIP)    Conceptual Models
• Salmon Modeling, a Medley of Modern Methods
• CalSim-III Reservoir Operations Modeling
• Development of CalLite: CVP-SWP System Screening Model
• Screening/Decision Support Modeling
• Delta DSM2 Hydrodynamics and Water Quality Modeling
• Delta Hydrodynamics/Particle Tracking Modeling
• Advantages and Pitfalls of Multi-Dimensional Modeling
• REALM: River, Estuary And Land Model
• Groundwater and Integrated Modeling
• Flood-Related Modeling
• Consequences of Modeling with Inaccuracies
   
• Annual Business Meeting
• Presentation of the Hugo B. Fischer and Career Achievement Awards (nominations due Friday, January 11, 2008)
• Two evening socials
• Poster session. If you’d like to participate in the poster session, please email cwemf@cwemf.org with your name, affiliation, and poster title by Tuesday, February 20, 2008.

Click here to view/download the 2008 Annual Meeting Agenda in PDF
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Click here to view/download the Meeting Session Abstracts in PDF
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Attending:

To register for the 2008 CWEMF Annual Meeting, please complete the Registration Form and send it and the appropriate fee to the CWEMF address on the form. If you wish to stay at Asilomar , please complete the attached Asilomar Housing Form and submit the form and payment to Asilomar following the instructions on the form.  The price of your room includes three meals per day (six total).  If you decide to stay off-site, you may purchase a meal ticket at Asilomar.

2008 CWEMF Annual Meeting FREE for students! The CWEMF is offering 30 student lodging and meal scholarships (a $120 value) that includes two nights lodging at the Monterey Youth Hostel International and six meals at the Asilomar Conference Center. To be eligible you must be a full or part-time student and do one of the following:

1. make a presentation at the CWEMF Annual Meeting;
2. participate in the Annual Meeting Poster Session;
3. submit a one-page paper on why you would like to go to the CWEMF Annual Meeting; or
4. have one of your professors email a recommendation to CWEMF.

If more than 30 students request a scholarship, then priority will be given in the priority order 1 through 4 above. To apply for a student scholarship, please fill out the registration form and email it to the CWEMF.

If you have any questions, please contact the CWEMF at cwemf@cwemf.org or (916) 607-0435.